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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

I have started the new week with my foot to the pedal! My traditional log cabin quilt featuring numerous text prints is now finished. Although my quilts are rarely finished with a border, this quilt looked unfinished and plain without it. Adding a border of half square triangles has given this quilt a little zing and movement.

My love for popular text fabrics continues, and I hope to add a wider variety of text/letters/numbers to my fabric stash as they become available. I enjoy reading all of the little messages, quirky stories and headlines that cover this quilt. The back of the quilt also (in part) features a text print - Memoir in White from Madrona Road by Violet Craft.

Quilted in simple straight lines - vertical, horizontal, as well as diagonal - and bound with a black/white stripe fabric (no surprises). The dark(er) black and white border and binding both complement and frame this quilt; adding another color at this finishing stage wasn't a workable option.

This quilt is so neat- for being still very much your style but at the same time different- for the traditional blocks and border, especially in light of the previous not-even-bound baby quilts. Great fabric choices as usual!

that's lovely. How on earth do you get the backs so smooth and wrinkle free, I'm having a nightmare with mine and have had to unpick the quilting more times than I care to mention and rebasted it several times!